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Grammaria abietina

Description

Grammaria abietina (M. Sars, 1850)

(fig. 10I, J, table 12)

Campanularia abietina M. Sars, 1850: 139.

Salacia abietina: Hincks, 1868: 212, pl. 41 fig. 3

Grammaria abietina: Fraser, 1944: 217, pl. 44 fig. 200; Naumov, 1969: 306, fig. 174, pl. 1; Calder, 1970: 1523, pl. 5 fig. 1; Vervoort, 1972a: 56; Cornelius, 1975: 382, fig. 3; Millard, 1977: 12, fig. 3D–E; El Beshbeeshy, 1991: 80, fig. 19; Cornelius, 1995a: 257, fig. 59; Calder & Vervoort, 1998: 27, fig. 13; Schuchert, 2001a: 64, fig. 51.

Grammaria magellanica: Hartlaub, 1905: 598, fig. S 2 –U 2; Vervoort, 1972a: 58, fig. 16B; Stepanjants, 1979: 54, pl. 9 fig. 6.

Grammaria stentor: Hartlaub, 1905: 599, fig. V 2; Naumov, 1969: 305, fig. 173; Stepanjants, 1979: 53, pl. 9 fig. 7.

Material examined. Stn. CME — 28.iii. 2005, 20 m, S3: four colonies, up to 16 cm, and smaller fragments, all sterile, 2 slides (MHNG INVE 53156). Stn. CAR — 08.iii.2006, 15– 25 m, S151: one sterile colony, 7 cm high (MHNG INVE 53471). Stn. CPI — 07.iii. 2006, 20 m, S145: one sterile colony, 10 cm high (MHNG INVE 53459). Stn. GDA — 07.iii. 2006, 11 m, S115: one sterile colony, 6.5 cm high (MHNG INVE 53370).

Type locality. Off Bergen, Norway.

Remarks. This well-known species needs no further comments. For a recent redescription I refer to Schuchert (2001a). All the present material is sterile.

Hydroid epibionts. Hebella striata Allman, 1888.

World distribution. Circumpolar, ranging southward to the North Sea in the eastern Atlantic, and to southern New England in the western Atlantic. In the southern hemisphere, it was reported near Crozet, Kerguelen, and Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia (Schuchert 2001a).

Records from Chile. Previous records of this species are from the Strait of Magellan (Hartlaub 1905). The present material was found between 48°20' S and 51°40' S.

Notes

Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2007, Hydroids and hydromedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjords region of southern Chile, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 1597 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1650.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5097970

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MHNG
Event date
2005-03-28 , 2006-03-07 , 2006-03-08
Family
Lafoeidae
Genus
Grammaria
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
INVE 53156 , INVE 53370 , INVE 53459 , INVE 53471
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
M. Sars
Species
abietina
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2005-03-28 , 2006-03-07 , 2006-03-08
Taxonomic concept label
Grammaria abietina (Sars, 1850) sec. Galea, 2007

References

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